the riots appeal against their two year prison term is adjourned until next week after one of the russian trio blasts a new lawyer. georgians cast their ballots for a new more powerful parliament. president saakashvili is ruling party. and the u.k. admits to political benefit plans for secret war with the boarding complicity and torture charges that remain objective.

though and welcome to you aren't t. the start of october on karen tara with you today russian palm band pussy riot have appeared in court moscow to appeal against their prison term they three were sentenced to two years in jail and all goes for inciting religious hatred during a political protest at russia's main cathedral the verdict sparked controversy in the country and abroad here is our own thomas with the details of the hearing. court has wrapped up for the day and this is coming after you got that you know somewhat so you have it's the oldest of the three women requested a new lawyer and the court has granted that request which means she needs time to prepare the appropriate documents in the papers in order to let this specific hearing go through a new court date has been set for that hearing that is october tenth now again today many people here to see inside the courtroom it was packed in fact it spilled out into the corridors of the courtroom so that people could watch on television to see what was happening inside the courtroom outside the courthouse itself and many

more people both pro and again suppose he rioted coming to let their voices be heard showing that this case specifically still has wait a minute still resonates inside russia a little bit about the details on february twenty first pussy riot performed what they called a punk prayer at christ the savior cathedral in central moscow they were arrested in march a trial during the summer and then in mid august they were sentenced to two years and this is part of the appeals process today which has now been delayed until october tenth well certainly this incident has sparked a lot of international attention support for the group of media frenzy as well as calls for leniency for the group major artists like bjork of madonna and the red hot chili peppers have called for the government to be lenient as well as other western governments have said that they need to find a punishment that is more fitting to the crime of what they say is more fitting to the crime now prime minister medvedev has said that he doesn't see any reason for this group to spend any more time in jail that the time that they have served is

already punishment enough for the crime president putin has said that he is completely staying out of this he does not want to interfere at all there's also been many copycat incidents around russia as well as in other countries as well in ukraine one woman took a chainsaw to a crucifix and destroyed it in a cologne germany in a cathedral there three people got up in the middle of a service and had a protest there they were arrested their trial starts this week as well in russia this country is very divided about the subject as seen here today this country is a very religious country and many people were offended by what happened in the country's main church. georgians are heading to the polls in what is billed as a landmark parliamentary vote for the country president mikheil saakashvili his ruling party faces a tough challenge from a united opposition but his campaign hit by allegations of corruption and a prison abuse scandal artie's looks at a show of skill reports from the b.b.c. . running in this election but the main battle is understood to be

between the party of the president the ruling party of the united national movement and the businessman whose fortune makes up almost half of the country's budget a mystery ivanishvili has sponsored georgian dream it's actually in fact an alliance of six opposition parties on saturday the country saw the biggest political rally in its more in history with two hundred thousand people protesting in the streets and definitely this adds a lot of spice to this election the importance of this election is that. really steps down next year the parliament of the majority parliament will be able to elect the prime minister who according to new amendments in the constitution will have almost the same powers as the president so definitely the party which wins this election will have the future of georgia in its hands right now this service suggests that the ruling party is in a slight lead but still the opposition still has a very good chance to be victorious in this election as this election seems to be

pretty much unpredictable given the latest twist of events in georgia with the political election campaign ahead of this vote has been very very turbulent first the businessman mr vanish really announces his participation in the election and he is then being stripped of the georgian citizenship fined for about ninety million dollars for as it was alleged using dirty techniques in winning the electorate then in september the footage of prison torture and abuse was released in georgia which caused massive outrage in a country with hundreds of thousands hitting the streets and a thing which troubles opposition and many in georgia the most is the allegations by the opposition that the country is gradually emerging into a police state with the torch in prisons with the ruling party with the government suppressing any kind of opposition on television and the judicial system also being very much under the thumb of the current president and his party for. you know but

john i was once described saakashvili as a bolshevik rule and that these countries are getting more authoritarian so there's definitely promises to be a very tight race we will certainly be bringing all the latest exit poll results as they come out later during the day after a massive protest following georgia's president views scandal many refused to buy president saakashvili his promises of transparency and democracy artes you go to school not reports on what's behind the country's modern image. friend you would think banks restaurants had a western style face with in general is definitely something georgian authorities can be proud of the class was in police stations and many other new government buildings aimed at creating an image of a completely transparent state system but is it merely an image the recent forest of alleged torture and sexual abuse of inmates in prisons has shocked the

georgian public many are comparing it to cases from guantanamo except it contains suspected terrorists and these are ordinary georgian inmates. moreover the former senior staff member of one of the prisons who leaked the footage claims president saakashvili is perfectly aware of the torture. thousands took to the streets in protest demanding the arrest and prosecution of all those responsible while a burning broom has become a symbol of the opposition since this is what the authorities are accused of using for torture in some of the videos this will not be tolerated opposition activists dodges agree or claims over six hundred people have been tortured in prisons and nationwide many died he says are to me our goal is to make sure the election is without provocations and the people who committed these crimes are punished especially mikhail saakashvili duchy was arrested by traffic police the day after

we met officially for resisting orders he was given ten days in prison meanwhile to save face president saakashvili was busy sacking the police chief arresting all the officers shown in the video footage and substituting the staff in all prisons with police but both his and the ruling parties readings still dropped by new only twenty percent. of a large portion of the government supporters used to come from several servants now many of them are resigning in a crossing over to the opposition with an average salary or around four hundred us down. and gravity is another issue sparking public disapproval in shiny new buildings that. change is going to happen so the question is how bad the georgians want them to go to school of. london's plans to set up a new system of secret court has been rejected by one party in the coalition the liberal democrats but it might still see the light of day documents show the

government admitting secret hearings what allowed the u.k. to easier deferred itself from such allegations as being complicit in torturing detainees or broad parties last month looks at what the motion entails. nipping charges of complicity in the bud that's what the u.k. government admits it's trying to do with its plans for secret courts ministers have more secret courts a need is to protect sensitive information and the workings of security agencies but in documents seen by the guardian newspaper the government acknowledges it would benefit politically able to defend itself from allegations like complicity and torture without the details ever becoming public there have been a number of cases where the government has been government lawyers have tried to shut down court hearings and have things heard in private a minute has transpired true that your dish will price says that what they were really trying to cover out was a lot of government embarrassment about wrongdoing our meeting with the media

agencies these proposals if their past will sweep away hundreds of years of the british legal tradition the proposals follow a law suit brought by binyam mohamed who was held in guantanamo and all good the british government was complicit in his rendition and torture mohammed won the case to the d.p. million and if the government and now they're trying to change the law so the government often a party in these matters would decide if a case should be heard in secret it wouldn't just be kept from the public if the proposals go ahead neither the defendants nor the defendants legal team would be able to hear the evidence against the human rights lawyers are concerned it would trample on the principle of a fair trial in effect a large trial very important of the case that you're trying to your client you're going to be. they're going to be behind closed doors closed sessions you are

not. so if there is an unheard on furnace there is a huge scope for. future miscarriages of justice evident. m i five and m i six knew that britons were being tortured in guantanamo m i six helping to deliver libyan dissidents into the hands of gadhafi secret police critics say that's the kind of information the bill is designed to suppress so beg who was held and here alleges tortured in by graham and guantanamo has a special interest in making sure there are no more secrets theory i remember the discussions that were taking place at the time it was very old former guantanamo prisoners on one side sixteen of us and a whole bunch of government officials on the other side having a discussion negotiating a settlement we would have been able to do that basically we would have been able to certainly try to take the government to court but we would have to do it with our hands tied behind their back even the government admits that black and asian

muslim men will be disproportionately affected as it's they who are most often involved in cases where sensitive information is being considered and still the bill rolls on the plans for so-called secret justice have proven so deeply controversial that they've been delayed but like a bad penny they keep turning up and every time they do it gives human rights groups another opportunity to work against proposed legislation they say goes against one of the founding principles of the british legal system not only that justice is done but that it seemed to be done laura smith forty london. a new rolls around during one of america's military bases in japan as us all spring planes over okinawa anger of locals who want to fly all the details coming up later in the program. and this and much much more ahead for you after the break stay with us.

as his day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of story hundred sheep in the mountains and plains of t.v. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but he dition and familiar duty dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father has just made camp at their winter farm stage setting up his ute the traditional two fenian round tent made of diskin. back amongst his family as his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving extremes of plus to minus forty degrees celsius it's just that i use them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in

town i spend a lot of time here. so on most of us it's simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and that's where they fit their could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their hearts they hurt the cattle. with people leaving them coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of the herd and more attractive than promising. and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day put out to ensure the hoda gets a high at fair price i sympathize with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life they in their publics capital. but he no longer wishes to join them

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welcome back here with our coming to you live from moscow and i'm karen tara while tens of thousands have rallied on japan southern island of okinawa against the deployment of all spray planes at an american base there the demonstrators say the aircraft's safety record is not up to scratch following a series of clashes and the permits but six also great planes have already been transferred to the base near the densely populated city of you know what protesters are all also calling for the facility to be shut down human rights activists run dawson says despite local are under u.s.

bases seem to stay put. these bases cause a lot of problems not only for safety but noise issues and a lot of conflicts with the servicemen themselves in the local areas but the u.s. isn't going to budge in that position they've been dragging their feet now for six years so i think it's highly unlikely bases will close and nobody wants any of their bases there but for them to be bringing these in the twenty two osprey from boeing is very dangerous a crash just recently is june in florida that could fall on someone's head but that's not an exaggeration is the seeing there a hybrid helicopter airplane and they haven't got the bugs out of them yet they always say they're building up a presence because of north korea and maybe part of that is true but i think a lot of it's about and certainly in china as well it's like world war two never ended and there's still bases in germany as well there are necessary the residents

don't want them but this is u.s. geopolitics they are never somewhere temporarily once the u.s. comes somewhere with one exception is saudi arabia and they put a base they never ever leave. and don't forget you can always log on to our teas website or you tube if you missed any of our stories here's a little of what find a few there and now the power of nature and full of you now is a forceful time food blasts its way towards tokyo watch it in full on r.t.c. you tube channel. plus one blog around the clock the couples in the u.k. can now get a good stiff any time more details all at r.t. dot com. thousands have swung to the streets of paris to call for an end to tough austerity measures take decision making back from the hands of brussels president has unveiled thirty seven billion euros worth of cuts and tax hikes but people are most angry at the proposed fiscal pact which would see overspending

nations penalized by the e.u. parties were in financial explains why the treaty is so unpopular. it was prepared earlier they smart by e.u. leaders including the president of france nicolas sarkozy and and german chancellor angela merkel and and forces stricter fiscal discipline from the u. members and it requires them to slash the public deficit dramatically oh to be punished to be fined critics and people who've come here to say peace pact is all about control the brussels want to have over the european union members if they streety is ratified that means france will have to will be obliged to reduce its budget by thirty billion euros and of course it will affect life in france or matter if the life of ordinary people i mean this budget document says is it was already ready it's been reviewed recently and it says that it proposes to save

thirty billion euros by cutting public spending and by increasing taxes and of course this is something it's not going to help economy growth but instead may lead to stagnation this is what people of come here are protesting against. by the state we don't want. to pressure to stop our concrete from investing in public sectors like education don't put this out we are protesting against the spirit in europe and everybody knows better sterett he leads to recession going to live from the city he said we are against the imposition of the austerity plan it will be very difficult for us of course we don't want that part of starting to measures have led to a national wide protest and in many countries protesters have been clashing with police all ols road to europe and many here fear that france could be the next country to face this reality was dramatic reality and they say they've come here to protest to avoid these negative consequences and not to repeat the mistakes of

other e.u. members. team kerry. now to some news in brief for you from around the world at least fourteen people have been killed and over sixty injured in a suicide attack in eastern afghanistan a man on a motorcycle packed with explosives rammed into a patrol of local and international forces in the city of course this comes as the u.s. military death toll in the war reaches two thousand and three firefight at a checkpoint and soldier and a civilian contractor died when their afghan colleague opened fire. she miles was infuriated by a photo of a burned koran only facebook account had torched ten buddhist temples the picture was allegedly posted by buddhist teenager rioters attacked a buddhist communities injuring dozens of people the boy however said the photo appeared on his account on the stake his parents have been detained and

investigation launched. against top four times rejecting the deal by nine doctors convicted for their participation in last year's pro-democracy uprising and the previous for vets this comes amid an ongoing police crackdown and the jailing of key opposition leaders anti-government protests have been a constant across the country for more than a year with some western countries being criticized for turning a blind eye to the violence. italian newspaper called the end of their last saturday's reporting that former libyan leader moammar gadhafi may have been killed by a french assassin mixed with the revolutionary brigades this challenge is the official version that he was murdered by a rebel fighter after being cornered in a drainage pipe sources claim power wanted to silence gadhafi over his alleged links with the french government and election campaign financing. all right time

for business with spain's debt seems to be mounting doesn't it absolutely it does it is. expected to reach more than ninety percent of the g.d.p. more on that in just a second but first let's check out the equity markets banking stocks or drive european equities higher this hour after stress tests showed that the spanish banking system needs a lower than expected couple ization but spain's economic health is still a concern its debt will continue to rise next year putting on the pressure on the state that's been struggling to cut spending the nations that will reach eighty five percent of the g.d.p. this year and as much as ninety one percent and twenty thirteen and that's almost three times more than before the property bubble burst in two thousand and eight analysts believe it's only a matter of time before spain requests a bailout. now on the currency market the euro this hour is gaming to the u.s. dollar and the russian ruble is getting to the dollar but is a losing to the european currencies and as the central banks across the

globe try and crank up the printing presses competition for currencies seems to be strengthening and some experts say the russian ruble has a pretty good investment potential that's out of black or has all the details of the financial world why be on the brink of war a currency war investors believe the emerging market currencies may now see sharp gains as the new look we did see flows into the global economy from the world wide stimulus measures local central banks in their turn are starting to him to be in top of the car and says over strengthening infects investors old bridge to selling the brazilian ryall the czech rule not and even the japanese young has the government's made it clear they will do them to their money from overheating by comparison russia central bank is weakening control pledges to move to

a free flow to the next three years that means the ruble may be one of the few emerging market currencies by takings. they could shift capital of the central bank will allow the ruble to be. free floating essentially largely free floating and. the ruble should fire and it's ok librium value which we believe is stronger than we're currently is right now because of the factors associated with higher oil prices because of the scale of capital outflows that we've seen previously that we're starting to see decelerate now whether the effects of newly printed money could be lower this time experts argue that central banks in the merger markets face a tough decision over whether to weaken their currencies to help struggling exporters and keep it growth model allows them to train to offset the impact of rising food prices but you know what you call

a business card to you both go. and here on the russian markets the bulls are definitely running the show the r.t.s. is gaining almost one a quarter percent to spare bank is also gaining on the news that it is finalized its three billion euro takeover of turkistan is a bank that ranks among the top ten in turkey the cash will help the debt as banks parent company debt c.l.o. words debt for spare bank it's the second largest deal of the year a few months ago and bought austria's vold spectrum which. while you're all up to date on all the latest from the business to you all say back here in fifty minutes all right thanks for the after. and sure we look at why some critics are saying israeli democracy is a contradiction in terms. if

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